Following a joint eyewitness investigation and campaign by PETA, Animals Now, and Let the Animals Live, Israel announced that—effective immediately—no new slaughterhouses will be approved for export to the country unless they conduct slaughter with rotating restraint pens. For facilities already exporting beef to the country, it set a deadline for the installation of rotating pens … Read more »
For many years, PETA has urged VF Corporation and its subsidiaries to reduce their use of animal skins and turn their focus to vegan materials. Now, VF has announced an Animal Derived Materials Policy, which prohibits its brands from using angora, fur, or exotic skins. The company’s labels include Eagle Creek, JanSport, Kipling, Lee, lucy, … Read more »
PETA asked Overstock.com to join the hundreds of other retailers that have stopped selling angora wool—the hair removed from terrified rabbits as they scream in pain. After discussing this issue internally, Overstock told us that it would remove all angora products from its website and not sell them again.
Golden Ring Circus, which is usually animal-free, was allowing Hugo Liebel to give rides on Nosey the elephant outside its shows. Prior to one of these shows, scheduled in Florida in May 2017, PETA contacted county officials to advise them of Liebel’s extensive history of public-safety and animal-welfare violations. The county confirmed that it wouldn’t … Read more »
After releasing its eyewitness investigation of Summer Wind Farms, PETA alerted the USDA about the roadside zoo’s failure to provide two ailing tigers with veterinary care. Just one week after PETA’s complaint, both tigers were rescued and moved to the accredited Wildcat Sanctuary in Minnesota, where they’re now living in spacious naturalistic enclosures and receiving … Read more »
Following an extensive, nearly four-year campaign by PETA and PETA Australia, the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) has announced that it will stop forcing civilian and military surgeons to cut holes into the throats, chests, and limbs of live pigs and sheep during the Early Management of Severe Trauma (EMST) program. Instead, EMST participants … Read more »
After learning from PETA that the only way to force elephants to give rides is through violence and domination, World Spree Travel agreed to replace the elephant rides it had been offering at Amber Fort in India with jeep rides. The company also committed to not offering elephant rides as part of itineraries on any … Read more »
The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. organizes and funds training sessions for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on an internationally used software program that incorporates computer models (funded in part by PETA) to predict chemical hazards without using animals. See here.
Following encouragement from PETA, as well as growing public interest in wellness-focused lifestyles, Oceania Cruises launched new vegan menus—which feature more than 250 innovative, plant-based dishes—on its six ships. Two ships also have raw juice and smoothie bars.
After a PETA supporter told us that online retailer Natural Ginesis was selling glue traps, we asked the company to remove them. Within hours of learning about the anguish and torture endured by small animals ensnared in the glue, Natural Ginesis agreed to remove the traps and not sell them again.
April 11, 2017 Hundreds of animals in four developing countries will no longer be cut apart and killed in medical training courses, thanks to PETA’s donation of eight state-of-the-art TraumaMan surgical simulators, worth $200,000. This brings the total number of countries that have ended the use of dogs, pigs, goats, and sheep for crude medical … Read more »
